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Airbnb UX concept

2012 Review

Last Year's Highlights

TED Mobile

Rethinking the TED experience

Thoughts

Our 21st Century Hammer

In a time where industrial inventions are outnumbered by system innovations, I wonder; what modern tools will endure with our intelligent evolution? What modern tools will mimic the hammer’s characteristics; delivering empowerment alongside accessibility? What modern tool will weave itself into the everyday fabric of society? What modern tool fundamentally changes the way we behave as humans? What modern tool pushes humanity forward?

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How Sales Made Me a Better Designer

The time has come to rebut the “No Experience” jargon. Sales isn’t relevant to design? Please. Empathizing with users, handling rejection, and gaining commitments aren’t problems a designer must tackle? Ha! Okay let's get this straight; the sales cycle is similar to design? Well actually, yes, break down some technical vocabulary and the cycles of each field intersect quite cohesively.

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Empty Emphasis

The absence of bold and italics from native iOS text interactions is baffling. (Especially considering Mr. Job’s passionate love for typography ever since the crashing of that calligraphy course at Reed College) Bold and italics are tools of emphasis. Not equipping applications with these functions is just plain wrong.

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